TDs to O Cuív: Don’t target OAPs

FIANNA FÁIL backbenchers have warned the Government targeting pensioners in the budget could have a disastrous effect on the party.

Social Protection Minister Éamon O Cuív has raised the possibility of cutting or reducing the state contributory pension for wealthy pensioners who have separate sources of income.

But at a meeting of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party in Leinster House last night, a large number of TDs called on Mr O Cuív to ditch any such proposal.